Stay updated with breaking news from January of 1999. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
His eventually obituary, that is how we wrap up our wednesday night broadcast. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. It is wednesday, the 18th Of December in the year 2019 and President Donald Trump is impeached. The vote in the House Of Representatives tonight to impeach the president was not close. It was 230 to 197 on the first article, which was abuse of power. One democrat voted present. On the second article, Obstruction Of Congress, it was a vote of 229198, again, with one vote present. These were not slim margins. The successful vote to impeach the president tonight, of course, does not remove him from office. The decision of whether or not to remove him from of ....
To tell the people of this country that we accomplished? one great farewell speak was ronald reagan in january of 1999, he said we revived national character we were missing, that is what i want to tell americans in 2033. get independence from china. it is okay it is making others insecure and will level our party up and that is a good thing. specificity of where we are going. laura: that is right, i think people are looking for specific solutions, quickly, though, what are you going to do or what do you see in terms of getting early ballots in people s hands, voting early and ballot harvesting? republicans are like, we can t do that, that is cheating. the other side is doing it, how ....
Because there are some good people in this country who provide a lot of resources and support for these people. and you got to got out here to tell the stories so people understand the need. the need here will be great. it will go on for a long time after the media has left. will: good point, rick. rick: you bet. will: bring in governor mike huckabee former governor of arkansas, who is stranger, no stranger in fact to this program or impact of deadly tornadoes having dealt with a number of them as governor of arkansas. governor, good to have you with us this morning. you ve seen the reports, images going on for about a day. what is your reaction? brings back a lot of very, very traumatic memories. on personal level, i was in two tornadoes. when i was 11 and when i was in the governor s mansion, devastating tornado, january of 1999, killed 27 people. tornadoes are a horrific ....
Actually voted against impeachment both in the full house for their vote and the judiciary committee. when he was running for senate, he ran very hard against impeachment. he said i m not going to vote for impeachment, i ll vote for acquittal and he attacked his republican opponent in the senate at the time saying that he won t tell us where he stands, everybody in america has got a view, and he is the only person who doesn t. so when schumer gets to the senate, takes office in january of 1999 and starting the impeachment trial, he was talked by the rnc and people who said that how can chuck schumer be a juror in this trial when he has already said how he is going to vote. and that is where we saw schumer came in saying, you know, the senate is actually not like jury and when it did come time to vote, he voted to acquit clinton like most democrats and he said ....
Going on. why do you think nancy pelosi is sitting back and holding these articles and might it backfire on her? i think it will backfire on her. it s very difficult to tell exactly what s going on here because there everything has been thrown up in the air. tossed up in the air. they are not following any of the precedence, they are not following any of the rules. for listen sake, ed, 21 years ago between christmas and the start of the trial in the senate in january of 1999, we were meeting in the judiciary committee as republicans, nonstop, making sure that everything was in place to present a professional, legal case in the senate. this go around, the articles haven t been sent over. managers haven t been appointed. everything is up in the air. and it just highlights the fact, i think, that this is nothing but a purely partisan politically driven exercise. ed: especially shocking after nancy pelosi promised months ago that this would be bipartisan if she did move forward. you sa ....